something i've never understood is if adam and eve are just metaphorical where did "original sin" come from.
and, if there was no original sin, what is the value of jesus sacrifice?.
i know a lot of christians believe in evolution but i've never understood how such a belief is structured.
If you take seriously Paul's theology on Jesus as the second and the last Adam, you must believe that the Genesis' account of the fall is historically true, otherwise Jesus was a false Adam, inasmuch Adam never existed.
So, if Adam did not exist, there is no original sin, then Jesus' dead does not save anyone, because nobody is dying on account of Adam. Indeed, it makes sense why biblicists need to defend the Genesis account.
recently there is a royal bulla that was found in jerusalem, that of the judean king hezekiah on it was two egyptian ankhs and a wings sun disk.
there have been other artifacts found with that of the egyptian scarab beatle which relates to sun worship.
so does the bible give any clues to the god of the jews?.
today has been a horrible day.
what began as a day of joy finding out that one of my lifelong friends had her baby, turned into a nightmare when her brother called me to let me know she had passed away after birth.
i was in shock and didn't ask how.
Cofty: I have not the slightest doubt the leadership no longer have faith in their own blood policy. They are murderers.
Yes, th GB is an evil group of killers.
maybe it is just me but when i read this paragraph all i could do is shake my head and wonder how i used to buy into this crap and how people don't wonder what the hell the writers are thinking'.
"imagine what life would be like if god did not have love for mankind.
we merely have to look at the awful history of this world with its human rulerships under its unloving and wrathful god, satan the devil.
We merely have to look at the awful history of this world with its human rulerships under its unloving and wrathful god, Satan the Devil.
Ok, but, who gave this world to Satan the Devil??? (read Luke 4:6)
seems to be quite a few posters recently pulling down the beliefs of jw's as not biblical or truly christian.
maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, i really don't care.. in some important ways though mainstream christians often behave better than jehovah's witnesses; most don't practice shunning or impose lethal medical prohibitions on their members.
many are far more tolerant of the lgbt community and a few even make the awkward attempt to square the fact of evolution with their faith.. please note that i'm saying some, not all.. so i suppose it's fair to say that differing forms of christianity can be better or worse for individuals, families and the wider community.
seems to be quite a few posters recently pulling down the beliefs of jw's as not biblical or truly christian.
maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, i really don't care.. in some important ways though mainstream christians often behave better than jehovah's witnesses; most don't practice shunning or impose lethal medical prohibitions on their members.
many are far more tolerant of the lgbt community and a few even make the awkward attempt to square the fact of evolution with their faith.. please note that i'm saying some, not all.. so i suppose it's fair to say that differing forms of christianity can be better or worse for individuals, families and the wider community.
If we were living in one of the first centuries, the Watchtower sect would be like those of that time.
Read the Church Fathers and all of them were biblicist and fanatic.
However, currently, most of the orthodox churches have evolved. The majority of the scholars of the Catholic Church admit that the Genesis account is a myth.
this is my first post here (not being comments) but i still have to tell my story but for that i need to get my mind together in other to give as much detail as possible to be able to share it.
will do in a future post.. anyway i had to share this.. so i went out on service this morning (i never do i always end up excusing myself because i hate field service) reason i did was to see what the new c.o had to say and he sure did say something.
he was saying what we had to present and he went over the watchtower magazine.
so we had brother losch visiting our special assembly day which was weird in itself.
he's not a very good speaker and seemed like he was in dire need of a nap or something.. anyways just a few observations from the assembly program.
theme: imitate their faith.
Losch gave, more than once, a talk in which he compared suicide attempt with university careers.
Losch represents the most radical and stupid line of the Jehovism.
i wanted to relate an experience that happened this morning.
it is regarding the new format for the meeting on thursdays in my area.
its not word for word but im summarizing what i heard, the best i can remember.
"but you, daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end.
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.
(daniel 12:4).
For those who read in Spanish, I wrote a commentary on Daniel's fraud:
http://jehovismo.com/el-libro-de-daniel-un-fraude-apocaliptico/
